Machine for producing water-marks on fabrics.



No; 709,368. Patented Sept. 16, I902.

' E. SMITH.

MACHINE FOR PRODUCING WATERMABKS 0N FABRICS.

(Application filed May 13, 1902.

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MACHINE FOR PRODUCING WATER MARKS 0N FAB BIOS."

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YNITED STATES ATENT FFICE,

EDWARD SMITH, OF BRADFORD, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FoR"PRooucmowAtTE'R-MARKs ON FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 709,368, dated September 16, 19025 i Application filed May 13 1902. Serial No. 107,114. (No model.)

To all whom itmcty concern:

a changeable tappet S, having one or more 100 p The end frames A of the calendering-ma- Be it known that I, EDWARD SMITH, a subchine rollers B and C, the latter commonly ject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, called composite bowl, are of the ordinary residing at Bradford, inthe county of York, description and form no part of my inven- England, (whose postal address is 412 Well tion,eaeh rollerhavingasmooth and polished a street, Bradford, aforesaid,) have invented circumference driven at the same surface certain new and useful Improvements in speed by main driving pulley D through Machines for Producing Water-Marks on spur-pinion E and spur-wheel E, the latter Fabrics, (for which I have obtained provibeingjkeyed on the axle of metallic roller B, 1o sional protection in Great Britain, No. 21,894, which is hollow and heated by steam or gas dated October 31, 1901,) of which the followin the ordinary well-known manner. The ing is a specification. said roller, driving the composite bowl 0 at The object of this invention is to deliver the same surface speed by frictional contact. fabrics, hereinafter called cloths, to the Pressure is put upon the roller B and comr5 pressure-rollers of calendering-machines in a positebowl C by levers F,one mounted in i f novel manner by combining with said rollers each end frame A and connected by the remechanism for so operatingupon the cloth spective rods F to levers F mounted at the that water-marking possessing a distinctop of machine. Passing through each of the tive regularity of design or pattern is proj last-named levers is a screw G, engaging with 2o duced on the cloth and to substantially rea circular nut G, mounted in theboss of leproduce or repeat the same design throughver for the purpose of transmitting pressure out the entire length of the cloth and upon to and for raising one roller clear of the other any number of pieces of cloth in duplicate, in the manner as hithertq when the machine also to so operate parts of the combination is at rest. 25 that designs ofvarious configurations may The cloths to be water-marked are first t be obtained and to repeat the same design or wound upon the beams H and J in a manner designs on similar clothswhenever afterward thatthe ribbed face of the cloths come torequired instead of obtaining unknown and gether. These cloth-beams are carried by i i haphazard water-markings, such asare at long axles H and J, supported by suitable 30 present produced on cloths operated upon in brackets K and K. At each end of the said ,the ordinaryandwell-known methodshitherto axles a lever is mounted, and each lever is in in use. Q A V 1 contact with the end of twoaxles, as shown. My invention is especiallyapplicable to that A straight lever M is mounted at one end on j l class of cloths in which the ribs or cords run a fulcrum-pin and a bell-crank lever M on t 35 in the longitudinal direction of the cloth;but', a similar fulcrum-pin atthe other end of the as will beunderstood on reading the descriplong axles. To the horizontal arm of helltion and manner of operating the combinacrank lever M is attached a connecting-link xtion, the invention'isfalso applicable to that N for coupling said arm to a lever O, mountj class of ribbedcloths in which the ribs run ed on a fulcrum-pin at O, the other end of 40 transversely, the guiding of the cloths being said lever being connected to a spiral spring 0 snbstantiallythe same in bothicases; V t P, held in tension, and between the fulcrum- H {In describing my invention in detail referpin 0 and said spiral spring a small pulley enceis made to the accompanying sheets of Q is mountedon thelever O. a i drawingsfin which- I Upon the axle of the heated hollow metal- 45 Figure 1 represents an end elevation of an lic smooth-surfaced roller B a changeable ordinary calendering-machine with my ima spur wheel R is secured, gearing into a provement addedthereto. Fig.2isafrontele changeable spur-wheel R, mounted upon a vation of the same, partly in' section; Fig. 3, stud secured to end of axle of composite roller a a view at the opposite or driving end of a the or bowl 0, and to the spur-wheel R is secured 59 machine, andFig. 4 is a back elevation. I

suitably-shaped projections of configurations formed according to the desired pattern or design of water-marking to be given to the two pieces of cloth as they are simultaneously passed through the nip of the roller B and composite bowl 0, thetension of the spiral spring P keeping the small pulley Q in contact with the contour of the revolving and changeable tappet S.

The two cloths T and '1", rolled on the re 'operating both beams horizontally in the bearings of brackets K K. in directions opposite to each other, so that the cloths T and T are not always delivered to the rollers in a straight line-that is to say, at right angles to the nip of the roller B and composite bowl ,Obut at anglesconstantly varying in accordance with the difierential contour of the revolving tappet S, one revolution of which simultaneously causes the production of the same water marked design on two pieces of. cloth, which is repeated on the cloths throughout the entire length of same, effected by the same horizontal movements of the cloths definitely controlled by the contour of the revolving tappet S. By horizontally reciprocating one or both beams H and J in the manner as described the ribs in the two cloths will in some places cross each other and pass into and through, the nip of the rollers in a crossed condition Where the crossed ribs are flattened by the pressure of the smooth-surfaced roller B and composite bowlO; but in other places, where the contour of the tappet fSallows the cloths to be delivered withthe ribs in'the ,twocloths parallel to each other for a short distance and passed into the nip of the rollers in that condition, the ribs of the two cloths where parallel to each other, Will not be flattened by the pressure of the rollers, but each cloth for such distance will preserve its original plain rib or ground effect. By increasingand decreasing and thereby varying the rate of speed and distance given to the horizontal reciprocating movements of the carrying-beams and cloths 'l and T the ribs of the two cloths are made to cross each other in some places more than in other-sand for the ribs of the two cloths to be delivered to the rollers parallel to each other for various short distances, in accordance with the contour of the revolving tappet S, thereby delivering the clothsT and T to the roller B and composite bowl in a manner for producing water-marks having a variable and like watered design upon the face of each cloth without any friction or rubbing action of the roller B or composite bowl G upon either piece of cloth, the crushing or flattening of the ribs producing lustrous water-markingwherever the ribs are allowed to cross each other and plain, with a ground-ribbed eifect, where the ribs of the cloths pass parallel to each other into and through the nip of the rollers B and 0. Suitable brakes, such as a leather or like strap U, passing over eachcloth-beam H and J, with a weight W applied thereto, as shown, serve to keep the cloths T. and T in tension, also prevent overrunning, and al low the cloths to be fed uniformly to the smooth-surfaced roller B and composite bowl 0 of calendering-machine.

It will be obvious that my invention may be carried into effect by horizontally reciproeating one beam onlysay, for example, beam H-and produce water-marking on the two cloths T and T as they are passed between the roller B and bowl 0, in which case the beam J would be allowed to rotate in its journals without any horizontal movement and the bottom arms of levers M and M dispensed with, so that the top arms only of said levers would be incontact with'the end of axle H, by which the beam H and cloth T would be horizontally reciprocated, the top arms of the levers M and M being held in contact with the ends of axle H by a rod connecting the two levers together in any suitable and well-known manner for the purpose. The cloths T and T as they leave the roller B and composite bowl 0. may be wound upon rollers, such as Y, rotated at the requisite speed in the usual manner by a belt engaging with small pulley Y, or cuttled by an ordinary cuttler Z, operated by a belt connection with pulley Z, disk crank Z and connecting-rod Z arranged in the manner as hitherto. What I-claitn as my invention is 1 In combination in a machine for squeezing cloths, two smooth-surfaced rolls, a pair of cloth-carrying beams from which the cloths in duplicate pass between the rolls and means for reciprocating one of said beams longitudinally substantially as described.

2. In combination, a pair of smooth-surfaced rolls, a pair of cloth-carrying beams to deliver the cloths to the rolls in duplicate, a

changeable .tappet, means for driving the same and lover connections between the tappet and one of the beams for giving the same a longitudinal displacement substantially as described. r

3. In combination, the smooth surfaced rolls, a pair'of cloth-carrying beams, each capable of longitudinal displacement and means for reciprocating the same reversely to each other, substantially as described.

4. In combination, the smooth surfaced from the lever O to the lever M for operating -ro11s,a pair of cloth-carrying beams, each cathe same, substantially as described. to

pable of longitudinal displacement and means In witness whereof I have hereunto set my for reciprocating the same reversely to each hand in the presence of two witnesses.

5 other, said means comprising atappet, a le- EDWARD SMITH.

ver 0 operated thereby, levers M M at the Witnesses: opposite ends of the rolls and arranged to en- GOLLINGWOOD POLLARD,

gage the axle of each and the link connection SQUIRE WALKER. 

